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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall be paid; provided said confiement in jail shall

not exceed sixty days; but if any minor or person

Misrepresent.

referred to in this section, shall wilfully represent

that he is of full age, and that he is not prohibited

by this section, and thereby shall obtain any spiritu-

ous liquors, and the person selling the same shall be

able to prove such misrepresentation, the said person

selling to the said minor or other person so falsely

representing himself, shall not suffer any penalty,

but shall pay all the cost incurred in such case;

Proviso.

provided, that the act of any agent under this section

shall not be binding upon his principal, if the court

or jury shall believe that said act was committed

against the bona fide instructions of said principal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 274.

AN ACT to add additional Sections to Article
twenty-one, of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title " Washington County," sub-title " County

Commissioners," to be known as sections eigh-

ty-seven A, eighty-seven B, eighty-seven C,

eighty-seven D, eighty-seven E, eighty-seven F,

eighty-seven G, eighty-seven H, eighty-seven I,

eighty-seven J, eighty-seven K, eighty-seven L,

eighty-seven M, eighty-seven N, eighty-seven O,

eighty-seven P, eighty -seven Q, eighty-seven R,

eighty-seven S, eighty-seven T.

SECTION 87 A. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Appoint Col-

bly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of

tector.

Washington county, shall, on or before the first

Tuesday of April in each year, or as soon thereafter

as practicable, appoint a Collector of State and